Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-16
GENERAL NEWS.

The employees at the Joliet, III, iron and
brass works struck Friday, because their
foreman was discharged and a man en-
plOyed IN his place, to whom they objected
because he had been a foreman over con-
victs.
The commercial treaty between Germany
and Austria has been renewed for a period
of six months.
In the Harper trial, Friday, Bank Exam
iner Powell told Of the efforts made by the
defendant TO prevent the examination which
revealed the true state of the Fidelity bank
and resulted IN It's suspension. Other wit
nesses were examined whose testimony was
damaging to the defense.
Dan Driscou, New York murderer, has
been sentenced to be hanged on January
70. Jake NImmOns, negro, was executed
at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Friday
morning.
Detective Wiley, OF Chicago, was in trcGb
1t Cleveland, where he went to brine James
Young back for stealing 500. The pr soner
was turned over to him, and sub. 60 lently
both were found drunk in the street and run
IN with patrol wagon.
b the explosion of locomotive boiler
mean East MahOney Junction, Pennsylvania
Friday, four men were killed.
General satisfaction Is expressed in Paris
and throughout France at the election of NJ.
Sadi CarnOt to the presidency of the republic.
The new executive VIII close the present
session of parliament until after the coming
senatorial elections as soon as he has formed
a ministry. NJ. ROuvier's cabinet will re-
main IN Office for the present for the dispatch
of public business.
Johanna O'Brien, a servant at No. 80
Rush street, Chicago started q fire IN the
kitchen stove, Sunday, and poured kerosene
oil upon it to help it along. The usual re
a1Fff ~ MIDI aNgr
burned that there Is no chance for her
recovery.
The anarchists, or, as they choose to be
called, the German citizens Of Chicago, who
have the anarchist ball in charge, have
decided to disObey the mayors order
regarding the sale of beer at the entertain
ment.
The sleeping-car companies have always
seen to 1t that the traveller who happens to
be alone in q section when he mas paid for
the lower berth only shall gain as little as
possible by his good fortune. The upper
berth must be let down in order to prevent
him from getting more than the worth of
his money, though 1t makes not the slightest
difference to the company or its employees.
The railway commission OF Minnesota has
addressed circular to railroad managers in
that state, pointing out the absurdity of
this practice and calling for its abolition.
The companies are given ten days IL which
to show cause why the order should not be
made final.
half a dozen persons were stabbed, Sun
day, in a row between young rOughs at Erie,
Pennsylvania.
In a fight between coal-miners near Car
rOlltOn, Illinois, Saturday night, two men
were killed.
The Detroit Baseball club members re-
fused to sign for another year unless Wat
klns, the manager, was requested to resign.
A meeting with skin gloves was arranged
between Pat Kiilen and Mike Conley, to
occur within one hundred miles Of st. Paul,
on March lst, for 81, 900 and the gate money.
Wallace Ross, the oarsman, sailed for
Europe to arrange a race with George Blu
bear, the English champion.
The trial of the negro Thomas White for
the murd, of the cOlOred pugiIist, Henry
WOodson, began IN Chicago Monday.
The members of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Montgomery, Alabama, refuse to
accept the pastor sent them by the Alabama
conference, and, in order that the objection
able appOintee may not have access to the
church building, they have nailed up the
doors and windows.
The death is announced in London of Lord
Lyons, British ambassador to France, who
was minister to this country during the war
of the rebellion.
The Spanish government proposes to tax
agricultural products from America and
Other countries with which Spain has no com
mercial treaties. The conservatives wish an
increase of % per cent. IN the duties on all
foreign cereals, -four, rice, and cattle.
Two citizens of Arkansas, named Garrett
and WaggOner, got into a fight with each
other, recently, which ended in the killing of
both cOmbatants.
The national council at Switzerland has
eleeted NJ. Kurtz, a radical, as its president.
The superintendent of the public schools
at La Porte, Indiana. has antagonized the
churches by preaching a sermon that was
not sufficiently orthodox to please them, and
as a consequence an effort is being made to
Gust him from his Office.
Hundreds of cases Of scarlet fever are re-
ported at St. Joseph, Missouri, and up to
the present time the city authorities have
made no effort to prevent the spread of the
disease.
The receipts Of wheat at Minneapolis, last
week amounted to !, 326, $50 bushels, whichis
$50, 600 bushels less than those of the week
preceding. The market is strong with an
upward tendency. Owing to the fact that the
water IN the river was exceptionally low, the
output of the ttOur-milIs was only 50, 400 rar-
rels, which IS the smallest weeks business
since the new crop of wheat began to move.
By the falling of a hoisting-machine at
Port Richmond, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, two
men were killed and two others seriously in
iUred. Three negroes were killed by a boil
er explosion at HagansVille, Georgia.